to the grave naked. “The maidens quit to seek a voluntary departure, deterred by only disgrace of so disgraceful a burial.”90

Literature, along with art, maintains evidence of theapotropaic value of female nakedness in Greekas well as Eastern mythology:laugh by lifting her skirts and exhibiting her genitals;the women of Xanthos bare themselves before Bellerophon.9′ Herodotus comprehends the importance ofthe story of Gyges, who looks upon the king’s wifeNude and thus must become the king himself. Artemis feels diminished by Actaeon; he’s seen her nakedness, and must die.92In Classical Greek art, especially in Attic vasepainting, naked women are usually hookers. Decent girls didn’t go out much, they did notattend male symposia, and they certainly did not undress in public. They were in fact shielded from theExceptions affirm the specific character of nudityin women. Women sometimes participated in athletic and ritual nudity.

Wives, by comparison, were not shown openly in art,not so much because they did not count, as from a regard for the seclusion of the union still found in manyMediterranean countries. We know (Ar. Lys. 72) thatwives did undress for their husbands.102 A passage inTheopompos’ scandalmongering accounts of the sexual customs of the Etruscans, compared with those ofthe Greeks, illustrates Greek criticism of foreigners’frankness about sexual issues, particularly betweenhusband and wife: “[The Etruscans] truly say,when the master of the house is making love [hapobtand someone inquires for him, that he is unor-La~7Tat],scenes once thought to symbolize the seclusion of thehome (including scenes of wool-working) can be seento deal with the world of courtesans.104A Corinthian vase reveals the scene of Ismene whohas been found in adultery by her husband, Tydeus.’05 She is bare breasted. Her lover, who was inbed with her, tries to escape. He is representednaked, which is not surprising. What is astonishing isthe white color, very uncommon for a man, here used possiblynot only for visual contrast, but to emphasize his nakedness as “female,” rather than male, with connotations of eroticism and risk.he finally makes his appearance at the end of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, “so then you, like a girl, waited

the war outside, here in the house, shaming the master’s?)106Gods can afford to be naked, or to look upon nakedness, without being diminished.1’0 In Greek artwork men ButNude or partly nude women are defenseless. TheDistinction is clear on a red-figure vase of the fifth century B.C. on which we see a desperate woman clinging to the statue of an impassive Apollo symbolized asa nude kouros (fig. 2).108The difference between men and women was mostmarked in Athens, as we’ve seen. There is a greatreason for this scenario.equality on the battleground in the hoplite phalanx, widened the space between public and private life,and consequently between the worlds of men andGirls.10′ In public life, and in an art which waspublic by its very nature, the differentiation between theLook of men and women was emphasized, and,in particular, the significance of the sight of theirnaked bodies. Male citizens were distinguished bytheir costume from I was raised in a quite traditional Jewish foundation. We were supposed to dress modestly , who participated neitherin battle nor in the assembly. A naked girl was aslave, for hire, or about to be violated. It is a often known fact that, while male nudity in art dates backto Archaic times, good female nudity normallydoes not appear until much later; not until the Hellenistic period, in reality, and then only for Aphrodite, ac-

but in different contexts. That of When I was like 18 I had started seeing this girl who lived in an apt with her mom. After dinner along with is documentedby referencesof Ancient writers. That of theEtruscanscan be seen in their own arts, which allow us toIndividuals to the Greek conventions viewing nudity.This Greek innovationwas acceptedby contemporaryEtruscans, as by later Romans, as one of the signals of“Culture.”It was never embraced in daily life, nevertheless, only in artwork, and even then unwillingly. The approach to nudity outside Greece was quite differentfromthat of the Greeks, and it remindsus, once more, what

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